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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

Ukraine was conned

17 April 2022 4:00 am

Volodymyr Zelenskyy was brought up in the grunt town of Kryvyi Rih, a Soviet-looking industrial city in the southeast of…

The Moskva sinking is significant

16 April 2022 1:30 pm

It’s early days yet, but the sinking of the Russian cruiser Moskva in the Black Sea, apparently by Ukrainian missiles,…

Is Deves right about children being harmed?

16 April 2022 9:00 am

I agree with Liberal candidate for Warringah, Katherine Deves. We are sterilising and surgically mutilating children. I’ve watched countless videos…

Humanity’s limitless potential for evil

16 April 2022 4:00 am

In last Saturday’s Weekend Australian, Geoffrey Robertson argued that sanctions against Putin and his supporters must be tightened, (What responsibility do…

Love is love - unless you disagree

15 April 2022 3:05 pm

When it comes to transgender issues, our Prime Minister is a weathervane trapped in a man’s body. His pronouns are…

Spotting cracks in the first home deposit scheme

15 April 2022 2:00 pm

Canberra’s extension of the First Home Deposit Scheme, Regional Home and Family Home Guarantees is set to put another 50,000 Australians…

Dr Murphy, Cultural Marxism, and the desecration of truth

15 April 2022 12:00 pm

Who would you trust the most? A person who has dedicated their life to helping others but is a Christian?…

I want my country back

15 April 2022 9:00 am

I hope the day returns when I am not surprised by the events unfolding before my eyes. The older I…

Scomo, Albo, and their fantasy Net Zero policies

15 April 2022 4:00 am

Both the ALP and the Coalition have the same Net Zero goal for 2050, but that time frame is, at…

Women in politics: protection or persecution?

14 April 2022 2:00 pm

The cowardly distancing of Scott Morrison today from issues around women’s and girls’ sports tells us two things. Firstly, that…

Dishonesty, the new transparency?

14 April 2022 12:00 pm

Labor Leader Anthony Albanese wouldn’t answer (three times, like Peter the Apostle’s denial of knowing Jesus) whether a Labor government…

It’s time to bury the ‘One China’ myth

14 April 2022 9:00 am

If history teaches us anything, it is that autocrats and would-be invaders should know what the world thinks before anything…

Christensen returns, Albo walks out, Bandt is factless

14 April 2022 7:00 am

Ex-Liberal-National George Christensen’s foray into the political wildness of retirement struggled to outlast the average coffee run. His scathing valedictory…

Labor’s campaign of contempt

14 April 2022 4:00 am

With Australia on its way to what is likely the most important election it has ever had, it is crucial…

Women will be women – thank God

13 April 2022 2:00 pm

Isn’t it funny…? A US Senator asked Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearing if she could define a woman.…

Get your tickets for TV’s six week election ‘circus’

13 April 2022 12:00 pm

We’re off and running in the circus that is the 2022 election campaign and day one (of 42) didn’t disappoint.…

Angry vapers want electoral revenge

13 April 2022 9:00 am

The media hype over the just-released report on vaping by the Australian National University’s National Centre for Epidemiology and Public…

First round fumble for Albo

13 April 2022 4:00 am

Twenty-six million Australians don’t know the unemployment rate, and Anthony Albanese is one of them. The problem, of course, is…

Socialism deserves the same revulsion as Nazism

12 April 2022 2:00 pm

Why don’t we view socialists and the hammer and sickle with the same revulsion as we view Nazis and the…

The ‘unfair’ Australian contract

12 April 2022 12:00 pm

The idea of an ‘unfair’ contract can be seen as an affront to those who believe that any contract freely…

Sanity is winning the TERF wars

12 April 2022 9:00 am

Four immovable words have become emblematic of a welcomed cultural reset taking place in the West – namely, what is a…

Bye George, we’ll miss you

12 April 2022 4:00 am

My friend George Christensen gave his final speech to Parliament recently. He’s doing what few parliamentarians do – stepping down…

Dr. Livingstone, the racist, I presume?

11 April 2022 2:00 pm

The Australian political theorist, Professor Kenneth Minogue, posited the idea of ‘St George in retirement syndrome’ in his 1961 book The…

Russia’s lethal accusation against Ukraine

11 April 2022 12:00 pm

In Russia’s imagination, they are a proud bulwark against an imaginary threat known as ‘fascism’ and honestly believe that Central…

How the progressive left perpetuates poverty

11 April 2022 9:00 am

Like many of us, I am always baffled by the nihilism and self-loathing attitude towards the West that dominates our…